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Brat Pack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The name "Literary Brat Pack" was given to a trio of up and coming, young, and mediagenic authors in the 1980s: Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, and Tama Janowitz. The "Brat Pack" was a group of young actors and actresses that became famous in the 1980s and frequently appeared in films together. The actors most often mentioned as Brat Pack members are: en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brat_Pack   (223 words)

brat pack. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. Slang A group of highly successful young people engaged in the same profession: “the kind of overnight fame that characterizes the literary brat pack—that covey of under-30 novelists” (Christian Science Monitor). www.bartleby.com /61/89/B0458900.html   (95 words)

Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Easton Ellis, Bret Originally seen as part of the 80s literary bratpack that included Tama Janovitz and Jay McInerney, he shares some territory with Will Self (Ellis finds his work "a little too brainy", but says the man himself is "great fun on a night out"). Brat-pack uber-novel Less Than Zero was unsatisfyingly adapted in 1987 with a brat-pack cast; American Psycho is currently being filmed, with - after hesitation from Leonardo DiCaprio - Christian Bale and Willem Dafoe. He admits to Hemingway, Don DeLillo ("our greatest living novelist") and Joan Didion ("I completely ripped her off in Less Than Zero"), and says Ulysses was "the most thrilling thing I've ever read". books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-61,00.html   (95 words)

St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Bret Easton Ellis Born and raised in Los Angeles&; writer Bret Easton Ellis belongs with novelists Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz to New York& literary "brat pack&;" writers who achieved early success with their portraits of lonely types isolated in sparkling 1980s New York. The deep morality of the book is thus purposely blurred in a literary game of mirrors, but readers should not make the mistake of identifying character and author. Ellis does challenge the reader to face Bateman's cruelty for the sake of reaping the reward of the final message of the book: "Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in... www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200364   (939 words)

IFOA - Tickets: 416-973-4000 Tama Janowitz (U.S.A.) burst onto the literary scene in 1986 with her debut story collection and was quickly grouped into a "literary brat-pack" also featuring Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney. She will read from her new novel, Peyton Amberg; an unforgettable black comedy of modern marriage which captures a young woman's restlessness and quest for fulfillment. wonderfully sharp" (Washington Post), Slaves of New York went on to become a bestseller and Janowitz became known as "a fearless writer" (New York Magazine). www.readings.org /2003_IFOA/bios/janowitz_tama.html   (101 words)

CANOE -- JAM! Books - Reviews - - Lunar Park For those new to Ellis' work, "Lunar Park" offers a good enough set-up, chronicling the writer's hard-living bad boy lifestyle (as part of the "literary Brat Pack"), subsequent scare and redemption in vernacular that's easy on the ears. So having turned heads, becoming a literary rock star, it's no surprise that the author's latest work, "Lunar Park," has tongues wagging. But beneath this macabre hall-of-mirrors, and serving as "Lunar Park's" main haunting, is the spirit of Ellis' late father, Robert Martin (the author has said that when his dad died in the early nineties there were a lot of unresolved issues between the two men). jam.canoe.ca /Books/Reviews/2005/10/19/1269349-ca.html   (834 words)

BOOKFORUM Oct/Nov 2005 She is still the troubadour of pathos and tough-girl (sometimes, tough-boy) resilience that we met in the late '80s, a herald of the transgressive, deeply interior art that would succeed the snazzy shock of the literary brat pack. Mary Gaitskill was Flannery O'Connor with a flesh wound, spare and emotionally bloody. As Gaitskill explains in that same essay on Nabokov—revealing in one fell swoop Alison's distance and the shape of her story—"It is [his] detached, aerial view that allows a wide range of feeling in all its unpredictable, oscillating movement." www.bookforum.com /archive/fall_05/proctor.html   (1493 words)

PW: Jay McInerney: N.Y. Confidential - 9/14/1998 - Publishers Weekly McInerney is quick to distinguish his willingness to please reporters from the self-promotion of Tama Janowitz, a writer often described in the 1980s as a member of McInerney's "Brat Pack," who drew criticism for appearing in paid advertisements after the success of her first story collection, Slaves of New York. In 1984, McInerney was a 29-year-old lapsed grad student and self-described "literary geek" with one brief, unhappy marriage behind him, a new wife (philosophy student Merry McInerney) and a worshipful friendship with his teacher Raymond Carver. McInerney seemed to be enjoying the role of the Southern gentleman (although he grew up the son of an itinerant paper executive, McInerney says he has "a lot of memories and interest in the South"). publishersweekly.com /article/CA166067.html?pubdate=9/14/1998&...   (1890 words)

SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Tama Janowitz Tama Janowitz, promoting her latest novel, became a part of the literary "brat pack" in the 1980s. Sonia Braga, Tama Janowitz, Arto Lindsay, Amanda Hearst and others were at the art-saturated Manhattan boite Thursday to celebrate the Bronx. When we heard that author Tama Janowitz was coming to town we thought, "That is so 1986." Back then, Janowitz was a big hit with "Slaves of New York," which -- like Jay McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City" -- defined the ethos of the city for a certain strata of stressed, but hip, folks. news.surfwax.com /authors/files/Tama_Janowitz_Book.html   (249 words)

RARA-AVIS Archives: RARA-AVIS: RE: Tama Janowitz Janowitz, when she debuted in the '80s with "Slaves of New York," was considered one of the leaders of a new literary brat pack that also included Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis. Judging by Janowitz's previous works, it's probably a melodramatic novel filled with hip contemporary references, about a woman coping with guys who treat her badly or her own uncontrollable emotions Miker asked if anyone had heard of the novel PEYTON AMBERG or its author Tama Janowitz. www.miskatonic.org /rara-avis/archives/200312/0136.html   (212 words)

Bold Type: Tama Janowitz She was a "Guess who I saw at ____!"-level celebrity, and the press linked her--perhaps a bit too enthusiastically--to the "literary brat pack," consisting of Janowitz and writers Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney. Tama Janowitz burst into the spotlight in 1986 with, Slaves of New York, a collection of offbeat, bitingly satirical short stories that shed light on Gotham City's denizens and social mores. Now Janowitz returns to the spotlight with her fifth novel, A Certain Age. www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0899/janowitz   (528 words)

Guardian Unlimited Books Review Wasted youth It was published in 1985 (he was 21) and saw Ellis immediately bracketed with Jay McInerney at the forefront of a literary "brat pack" who dealt with drug-addled urbanites, rampant consumerism and moral ambiguity. Story: Less Than Zero is less a narrative than a clinical, monotone description of a mid-1980s Los Angeles college-age lifestyle, seen through the eyes of a student, Clay, returning home for the Christmas holidays. Clay drifts through an endless progression of parties, concerts, and drug connections, before allowing himself to be hired as a rent-boy and witnessing the gang rape and torture of a young girl. books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1183499,00.html   (578 words)

St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Bret Easton Ellis Born and raised in Los Angeles, writer Bret Easton Ellis belongs with novelists Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz to New York& literary "brat pack," writers who achieved early success with their portraits of lonely types isolated in sparkling 1980s New York. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Bret Easton Ellis Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200364   (578 words)

Babbitt Milton Byron: 3D View of the Web At age 19 she attended a Fateful party hosted by Lord Byron where he challenged his guests -- the literary brat pack of the day -- to compose a ghost story. Babbitt, Milton Byron - Babbitt, Milton Byron Musical biography with education and influences, the formation of the "Princeton School," unique characteristics, and later electronic works from... The daughter of independent thinkers -- famed feminist and author Mary Wollstonecraft and philosopher novelist William Godwin -- Mary was taught to embrace the original, the daring, and the unfamiliar, all of which inspired her ground-breaking debut novel, Frankenstein. www.resolve3d.com /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/B/Babbitt,MiltonByron   (1056 words)

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